Free Information Infrastructure is a term used primarily in Europe mirroring the official US term National Information Infrastructure, introduced in early nineties by a U.S. Patent Office paper [1]. World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... Disambiguation. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

The terms global information infrastructure and information highway were also used as a governmental term for the Net. For the more general networking concept, see computer network, computer networking, and internetworking. ... The adolescent Internet. ...

Free Information Infrastructure rather focuses on freedom and is widely used by open standards lobby groups in Europe. Look up freedom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Open Standards are publicly available and implementable standards. ...

Free Information Infrastructure focuses on the Internet. The Internet and the media that is used to access the net shall be free.

A Free Information Infrastructure comprises

• No software patents, no patents for eCommerce and data processing.
• Free access.
• Network neutrality.
• Open standards.
• Little control by state.
• Free speech.
• Strong competition law.
• Sometimes: Free/Libre (Open Source) Software.

Some groups such as EuroLinux and FFII refer to it. One possible definition of a Software patent, supported by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), is that it is a patent on any performance of a computer realised by means of a computer program. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which... Electronic commerce or e-commerce consists of the buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services over computer networks. ... Network neutrality is a general principle of Internet carrier regulation requiring networks to satisfy all application needs equally. ... Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ... EuroLinux is a campaigning organisation that promotes open source software / free software in Europe, and that are opposed to the European Unions proposals to introduce laws on software patents. ... The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII is a lobbying association based in Munich, Germany, and strongly against software patents. ...

External links

• Free Culture, Free Software, Free Infrastructures! Openness and Freedom in every Layer of the Network Video with Kloschi (Freifunk), Kurt Jansson (Wikimedia), Jürgen Neumann (Freifunk), Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (United Nations University), Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons) and Allison and Benoit (Montréal Wireless)

Free information directory